Dryads (2nd Unit)

This is my second unit of dryads.  Painted them over a year ago, back when dryads were still some of the best infantry in the game 🙁 unfortunately the new book changed that.  Reduced their points by 1 but also their ward save by 1, their strength by 1, their initiative by 1.  They lost skirmish, increased min unit size to 10.  They can’t take a banner and they can’t take a standard.  On the flip side they got hatred and the ward save isn’t negated by magic.  All in all though I think it’s widely agreed by players and opponents alike that they have been hit kinda hard.  As they stand their role in the army is greatly diminished and the points almost certainly better spent elsewhere. Such a shame as they are awesome models and I have 29 of them.  I can think of numerous ways they could be fixed but I think the quickest and easiest would be to give them back skirmish and reduce their min unit size to 5.    I based them just before the new book came out.

For whatever reason they seem a bit shiney in the photo like the matt varnish was not so matt or in fact glossy, this is not the case in real life.  And the photo is a bit dark.

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WIP Greenskins

The following is what I have been working on over the last few evenings in preparation for the games weekend in Invercargill in a weeks time.  Apologies for the poor quality image and lighting.  A number of the models are unbased simply because that takes time and my focus is on getting them painted first.  Also there is a glossy look to them as in the photos they’ve just been overcoated in matt varnish which is still wet.  (I had taken the photos prior to the clear coat but hadn’t used a tripod and they’d come out a bit blurry).  Lastly included are some Skaven weapons teams which I’ve not photographed properly yet but thought I would add them here whilst I had the camera out.

 

Orc Battle Standard Bearer & Skaven Poisoned Globe Mortar

Skaven Warpfire Thrower

Two Night Goblin Shamans

Skaven Packmaster

Having painted both rat ogres I was keen to get the packmaster that goes with them out of the way.  Pulled him out of the cupboard as an primed matt black rat and went to it.  Two hours later this was the result, which for me, a terribly slow painter who generally paints with one or both eyes on the telly is quite an achievement, albeit this guy is pretty small.  I haven’t got around to basing it yet rather obviously.  Quite happy with how the bronze colour came out, on both this and the rat ogre.  Can’t remember the colours I used but worked my way up from something like copper to shining gold or some such rather than using the same colour and washing and highlighting.